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Ontario must take action to protect our precious drinking water

We should not have to protest for something that is good common sense. Our Ontario drinking water is so precious, especially now when the whole world is in turmoil over unclean drinking water.

We are trying to protect our groundwater, specifically the Alliston aquifer, from the aggregate industry. Why is it that a gravel company gets to use pristine water, which humans can drink straight from the ground, to wash gravel?

Why are citizens in parts of Ontario on boil-water advisory for months and years? Why are some of our citizens dying because their drinking water is tainted with mercury?

When is common sense going to prevail? We need to protect this water now, before it is too late. This aquifer is at risk of permanent turbidity. Our provincial government must do the right thing.

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